Now rare. [ad. med.L. transanimātiōn-em (410 in Jerome Epistle 124, 4), f. TRANS- + anima soul: see -TION.] Transmigration of the soul; = METEMPSYCHOSIS.
1574. Eden, trans. Taisner’s Bk. Navig., Ded. (Arb.), p. xlvii. Yf it may be graunted … that the spirites of dead men may reuiue in other (after the opinion and transanimation of Pythagoras).
1612. Selden, Illustr. Drayton’s Polyolb., i. 14. This Pythagorean opinion of transanimation (I have like liberty to naturalize that word).
1727. A. Hamilton, New Acc. E. Ind., II. liii. 270. They have many Sects among them, but all agree in the Transanimation of Souls.
fig. 1871. Earle, Philol. Eng. Tongue, vi. 241. As the pronoun passes into the still more subtle conjunction—so also do verbs graduate from particular to general use. Nor does the transanimation stop here.
